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Research Interests

I am interested in understanding how landscapes can be managed to maintain biodiversity and healthy functioning ecosystems, while still allowing agricultural development to take place. Much of this work has been based in Malaysian Borneo, where I study the impacts of tropical rainforest fragmentation and conversion to oil palm plantation: among the biggest threats to global biodiversity today. In Sumatra, Indonesia I am PI on the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme (www.oilpalmbiodiversity.com), which investigates management strategies to increase biodiversity in oil palm plantations without impacting yield. This includes a largescale experiment that manipulates understory complexity in plantations and another that investigates management solutions for river margin reforestation in established oil palm landscapes.

Other Professional Activities

I am a Fellow and Tutor for Widening Participation at Clare College, Cambridge, a Trustee for the Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust and Chairman of the Cambridge Local Group of the Wildlife Trust.

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